Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King's English&Henry Fairlie 1
Lesson 2 Marrakech&George Orwell 17
Lesson 3 Inaugural Address（January 20,1961）&John F.Kennedy 35
Lesson 4 Love Is a Fallacy&Max Shulman 51
Lesson 5 The Sad Young Men&Rod W.Horton and Herbert W.Edwards 75
Lesson 6 Loving and Hating New York&Thomas Griffith 97
Lesson 7 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas（Excerpts）&Ursula Le Guin 113
Lesson 8 The Future of the English&J.B.Priestley 131
Lesson 9 The Loons&Margaret Laurence 151
Lesson 10 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American&James Baldwin 175
Lesson 11 Four Laws of Ecology（Part Ⅰ）&Barry Commoner 193
Lesson 12 Four Laws of Ecology（Part Ⅱ）&Barry Commoner 213
Lesson 13 The Mansion:A Subprime Parable（Excerpts）&Michael Lewis 229
Lesson 14 Faustian Economics&Wendell Berry 251
Lesson 15 Disappearing Through the Skylight（Excerpts）&Osborne Bennet Hardison Jr 275
List of Suggested Reference Books 294